Segmentation of dermoscopy images using wavelet networks

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1134-1141

  Sadri, Amir Reza ^a   Zekri, Maryam ^a,b   Sadri, Saeed ^a,b   Gheissari, Niloofar ^a   Mokhtari, Mojgan ^a,b   Kolahdouzan, Farzaneh ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dermoscopy; image segmentation; melanoma diagnosis; orthogonal least squares (OLS); wavelet network (WN)

Indexed keywords

DERMOSCOPIC IMAGES; DERMOSCOPY; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES; ORTHOGONAL LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHM; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; WAVELET NETWORK;

DERMATOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DERMATOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MELANOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; WAVELET NETWORK;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MELANOMA; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875503457     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2227478     Document Type: Article

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